A boy climbs a bamboo ladder on an apartment construction site in Phnom Penh’s Phsar Doeum Kor commune. / Photo by Alex Consiglio

A crew leader raises the Cambodian flag and yells into a microphone to encourage his team during a dragon boat race in Phnom Penh. // Alex Consiglio

A construction worker, 17-storeys high, paints the outside of a condominium project being built in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Keng Kang 3 commune on Monday, November 28. / Photo by Alex Consiglio

A woman leans on the window bars of a common room at the notorious Prey Speu detention centre in Phnom Penh. (Alex Consiglio/The Cambodia Daily)

John LeBlanc walks through his ruined ice-fishing cabin, which he was forced to dismantle after it began sinking into a lake in Saint John. (Alex Consiglio/The Telegraph Journal)

A teenage construction worker, who lost his right arm in a makeshift elevator crash, recovers after surgery in a Phnom Penh hospital. // Alex Consiglio

Two construction workers, 15-storeys high and without using their harnesses, hang tarps on Tuesday, November 29 at what will be a 25-storey condominium in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Keng Kang 3 commune. / Photo by Alex Consiglio

Mourners gather to hold a candlelight vigil for a Newmarket family killed in a house fire. (Alex Consiglio/The Toronto Star)

Children react to negative HIV test results in Roka commune, where hundreds of villagers tested positive during an outbreak blamed on an unlicensed doctor. // Alex Consiglio

A migrant worker reunites with her baby daughter after returning from Thailand. // Alex Consiglio

A mother sleeps as her baby stares at her inside a nearly-finished apartment building in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Tom Poung 1 commune. / Photo by Alex Consiglio

Braden Scopie in the room Sammy Yatim renovated to share with the youngster before Yatim was shot dead by police. (Alex Consiglio/Toronto Star)

A construction worker, 11-storeys high and provided with a helmet but no safety harness, reaches for a piece of aluminum on Monday, November 28 while balancing at the edge of an apartment building being built in Phnom Penh’s Tonle Bassac commune. / Photo by Alex Consiglio